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The Joseph Dalton Hooker Collection
The Joseph Dalton Hooker Correspondence Project at Kew is making available online the personal and scientific correspondence of the botanist and explorer Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens’ Kew from 1865-1885. The project was conceived by staff of The University of Sussex and Kew's Library, Art and Archive department and began as a partnership between Kew and the University of Sussex's Centre for World Environmental History. It has been made possible by support from the Stevenson Family Charitable Trust. Letter summaries can be searched through Ɛpsilon, with links to images and transcriptions at the project site at Kew (https://www.kew.org/explore-our-collections/correspondence-collections/joseph-hooker-collections).
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JDH suspects that it was [William] Aiton & [Robert] who arranged the transfer of [Francis] Bauer's drawings to the Botanical Department of the British Museum. JDH recalls a Miss Alderson who was a frequent visitor to his Aunt Palgrave, JDH's cousins Francis Turner Palgrave & William Gifford Palgrave were both in love with her - 'the Passionate Pilgrim'. JDH has spent a month working on Impatiens balsamina, a native of the Devon peninsula which has many forms he is painstakingly dissecting in water & then mounting. He also mentions working hard on Madras [Chennai] herbarium specimens for which labour he could use the assistance of the drawings Harriet Thiselton-Dyer is doing. JDH thanks Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer for sending a photo of 'the house'. Despite having bandaged legs JDH has been to see the sketches from the British Antarctic Discover expedition , he declares them the best from any naval expedition & particularly praises the ornithological drawings of Dr [Edward Adrian] Wilson.
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